An Examination Of The Subject Of Street Cleaning In The City Of New York Made At The Request Of Hugh J Grant PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...from 32d to 35th street: T The result was satisfactorily accomplished. But the amount of water consumed was very large, and the Department of Public works complained that damage was done to the pavements by washing out the filling of the joints, and clogging the catch basins. We think it possible that in certain exceptional localities, for limited areas, . and on a pavement which has no joints, this method might be used with success. But for the city at large it is manifestly impracticable, for the reasons given. 8th. ON THE METHODS or CLEANING 1N OTHER C1T1Es. With aview to obtaining data in regard to other cities the Committee requested Commissioner Beattie to send a blank form of inquiry to various cities. The answers as received are tabulated on the following page. It is evidentithat the conditions in other cities are so different with regard to character of pavements, width of streets, amount of traffic and resuilting manure, accessibility of dumping grounds, etc. etc., that nothing is to be learned from these replies which will aid in solvin'g the problem in New York. So far as the members of the committee have been able to observe, the streets of other American cities are not cleaner than in New York and many of them are even more dirty. To this observation an exception should be made in favor of Washington where the streets are kept reasonably clean at comparativeiy small expense, but this is due to exceptional circumstances arising from very wide streets, smoothly paved, and subjected to very light traffic. The streets of Berlin are kept in such fine order and the street Cleaning Department is so thoroughly organized, that it has been thought desirable to print a translation of a large part of the Annual Report concerning them for...